Rabbi jonathan sacks

Israel must prepare its Joshua Generation for the post-Netanyahu era - opinion

Israel has become a military, technological, and economic powerhouse. Yet as its strategic strength has reached historic heights, its international legitimacy has increasingly come under attack.

|BySHMUEL LEGESSE
THE KNESSET during a meeting on December 24, 2025.
People at polling station during the Likud party internal elections in Tel Aviv, July 27, 2026.

Israel needs new leadership: Could covenantal politics be the answer? - opinion

Israel’s significant integration into the world economy, our population growth, and economic progress made it possible for us to pick up some bad habits of the countries it wanted to emulate.

|BySHERWIN POMERANTZ
AN ISRAEL Day event on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan takes place last June. There is a significant increase in the number of Diaspora Jews who identify with Israel and show increased involvement in Jewish activity in their community, according to a JPPI survey cited by the writer.

Diaspora Jewry is not dying, it is changing - opinion

Judaism is not disappearing; it is changing its forms of expression. The challenges must not be ignored. Assimilation exists, and in some communities, there is also a decline in numbers.

|ByRENANA BIRNBAUM
CHABAD ‘SHLUCHIM’ gather in front of 770 Eastern Parkway, New York, in 2022.

'Engaging the Essence': The Lubavitcher Rebbe as philosopher - review

While the Rebbe did not write a system, he spoke to occasions for 40 years. Bronstein anchors the structure of the Rebbe’s talks in his first discourse of 1951.

|ByNOAH ROTHSTEIN

Reflections on the first yahrzeit of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

“His agenda is still on – Torah is reaching Jews and non-Jews alike. In this way, Rabbi Steinsaltz is still here with us," said his son Rabbi Menachem “Meni” Even-Israel.

AUGUST 9, 2021ByBENJY SINGER
Rabbi Sacks with Rabbi Steinsaltz at a gala dinner on June 10, 2018, to celebrate the latter’s 80th birthday

Genesis Prize Foundation will honor Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Foundation will recognize Rabbi Lord Sacks’ legacy and will produce a documentary about his life's work.

FEBRUARY 24, 2021ByALAN ROSENBAUM
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President Rivlin honors late Rabbi Sacks in bible study appearance

The Israeli president attends an online Bible Study group to honor Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z"l, who passed away last November.

DECEMBER 20, 2020ByGADI ZAIG
RABBI JONATHAN SACKS – his recipe for repair was the building of ‘covenantal communities’ based on a ‘we’ consciousness.

How Anglo Jewry began to listen

For generations, Anglo Jewry began the Shema with 'Hear, Oh Israel,' until Rabbi Sacks gave a new translation.

DECEMBER 17, 2020ByNEVILLE TELLER
A sofer writes verses from the Shema prayer on a 'klaf' with a quill pen

Prince Charles at 30 days ceremony: Rabbi Sacks ‘a light unto this nation’

The ceremony also featured speeches also by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Lord Jacob Rothschild.

DECEMBER 7, 2020ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: 'His output was astonishing and we were the beneficiaries.'

The particular universality of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

To mark Rabbi Sacks' shloshim, Bishop Robert Stearns offers a tribute to Sacks from a non-Jewish perspective.

DECEMBER 7, 2020ByBISHOP ROBERT STEARNS
RABBI LORD Jonathan Sacks speaks at St. Mary’s University College Chapel in London in September.

A salute to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks – a light unto his nation

Sacks was possessed of a combination of qualities not often found together in one individual ‒ a towering intellect allied to deep human compassion and understanding.

DECEMBER 6, 2020ByNEVILLE TELLER
Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks at Lambeth Palace in 2001 after being honored as a doctor of divinity in recognition of his leadership in the Jewish community and his contribution to inter-faith relations

Pedagogy of difference: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and education

The educational import of Rabbi Sacks’s open but religiously grounded social philosophy comes down to one simple truth: To know oneself.

DECEMBER 5, 2020ByHANAN ALEXANDER
Pope Benedict, Jonathan Sacks 311

Giving Rabbi Sacks the Genesis Prize is the honorable, responsible move

It is the most meaningful way to guarantee that his memory will be a blessing and that we will all find comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

DECEMBER 3, 2020ByMICHAL COTLER-WUNSH
RABBI LORD Jonathan Sacks speaks at St. Mary’s University College Chapel in London in September.

Letters to the Editor November 16, 2020: Carry the torch

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters